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tomistruth t1_jc65y2d wrote
Reply to comment by jaap_null in PotatoP Laptop Aims for Two Years of Battery Life by diacewrb
It's not the potato that actually runs the computer but the metal sticks you put into the potato. The potato just provides the water and salt to transfer the electrons.
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Reply to comment by Tenrath in Meet The World's Cleanest Fully Electric Car That Removes Carbon Dioxide From The Air by Anderson069
At this point carbon capture is more a gimmick than a feature. But the recycled materials are very nice, until you take a look how long those materials will last. Dunno if they can outlive aluminium and plastic.
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Reply to comment by Good-Astronomer-1138 in LPT: Take a few days to familiarize yourself with a spreadsheet app (e.g., MS Excel, Google Sheets). The uses are endless for school, the office, life, and other people will think you're a wizard. by tophswanson
Example code for people who rarely work in excel?
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Reply to Obligated Asian Rice Cooker by ArmorXIII
It looks like a cook with the rice spoon.
tomistruth t1_j88bqa3 wrote
Any good alternative to try in the meantime? Really want a good email client.
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Reply to comment by Quail-a-lot in What specific product, model or brand is still being made and worth it? by tomistruth
I will.
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Reply to comment by gaurddog in What specific product, model or brand is still being made and worth it? by tomistruth
First time hearing from Lodge and Isotune. Thx, I just checked those out and will remember them if I need those.
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Reply to comment by Kimorin in New Form of Ice Discovered – May Shake Up Our Understanding of Water by landlord2213
Because you don't get funding if you call it crushed ice.
tomistruth t1_j6xbj6v wrote
Just call 911
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Reply to comment by WelpIGaveItSome in Activation Lock is a great feature, but needs a rethink as 2020 Macs are turned into landfill by hugglenugget
I am not familiar with that problem but have a company where employees use macs. Can you expand on what you said a bit? Does this affect all newer models? How are you installing apps if you don't sign with your appleid?
tomistruth t1_j6m421u wrote
Reply to comment by GiraffeAdditional299 in DARPA wants aircraft that can maneuver with a radically different method by Hypx
Exactly. You only get rid of control surfaces if there is no space. So basically they want an airplane capable of traveling both air and space.
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Reply to Hydrogen fuel from the ocean? Scientists say they’ve found a way to do it. Author Ling Tao, a professor at Tianjin University’s School of Materials Science and Engineering, said the new technology was compatible with existing electrolysers that currently use fresh water by chopchopped
It still uses electrolysis which is power inefficient, the only benefit is the potential usage of sea water, which comes with higher risk of corrosion and organic pollution. So it is really cost of filtered water vs boiled or solar stilled water.
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Reply to OpenAI executives say releasing ChatGPT for public use was a last resort after running into multiple hurdles — and they're shocked by its popularity by steviaplath153
Capitalism is a good way to solve the allocation of ressources to increase production output.
But unstructured problems where answers can both be equally wrong or right and where the meaning is inherently difficult to rate without human input, can easily be solved BY ADDING human input, which is what OpenAI is doing now.
Humans alone are often not very creative, but humans as a collective of individuals able to learn from one another are immensly creative see as was seen during the demo phase. I alone would never had guessed that it could be used to emulate a terminal or a linux program or that it can create different answers by assuming different persona.
tomistruth t1_j6j42vb wrote
American politics is a charade.
The rich are running jokes on the people telling them whom to hate and what to think to distract from the real problem avoid real change.
Tiktok does just about the same thing that internet giants like google, facebook or even apple are doing. Google scans all your email attachments and reads all your emails. Facebook scans all your msg and images. Apple recently activated mandatory facial and body scanning on all photos.
The only reason Tiktok is in the news is because it is made by a foreign adversary. A hostile nation. Bytedance, the company running Tiktok is majority owned by the Chinese military.
But the real problem, that NOBODY is talking about is the lack of privacy and data protection for web.
If the US government would pass laws protecting the data and privacy of its citizen, then there would be no problem to begin with. If the apps are not allowed to access critical device and personal information automatically to begin with, no apps could be spy on you to begin with.
But then the government could not mass surveil its citizens anymore.
The argument that criminals or terrorists could use those privacy loopholes to commit crimes is a hoax.
They ALREADY use their own hardware with their own operating systems.
Mass surveillance is per definition for the masses, which means its citizens. It never was about criminals to begin with.
Fix those damn privacy laws and pass data protection laws to give EVERYBODY privacy, instead of those the criminals and terrorists.
End exploitive data mining and privacy abuse and increase privacy protection, so internet giants can't force consumes to agree to mandatory data sharing to use their service.
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Reply to comment by defcon_penguin in Scientists lower price of lithium's best competition - flow batteries - by 20%. Makes the battery effectively equal to or cheaper than lithium ion when spread over 30 years (flow battery lifetimes are effectively infinite with light repowering efforts). by PorkyPigDid911
Sodium is also extremely corrosive and flammable. Corrosion means less battery cycles making it less suited for critical power storage.
tomistruth t1_j6b0j46 wrote
They have endured Russian propaganda for so long they are immune to bullshit.
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Reply to comment by echohole5 in ChatGPT really surprised me today. by GlassAmazing4219
That's the point most people don't get. We have reached a point of no return on AI technology. AI technology will catch up to human capability this year, not next or a decade from now. It's here and it's going to stay and society and the job market are not ready for it.
Basic income will be a must now and it will change how immigration works, because no country will want to allow new migrations of low income workers, if they have to pay them basic income.
tomistruth t1_j5524es wrote
Reply to comment by zygodactyly in ChatGPT really surprised me today. by GlassAmazing4219
Hilarious haha, I will remember that.
tomistruth t1_j5521nb wrote
Reply to ChatGPT really surprised me today. by GlassAmazing4219
I don't know about you but that's pretty damn funny joke. You need to make the connections to their short arms though, not their posture.
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Reply to comment by DarthBuzzard in Apple Delays AR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset by GadnukBreakerOfWrlds
Oh, if you mean AR including a brain monitor than yes, that's a whole different beast. But aren't we still far away from that? Most people understand AR as a wearable headset screen like google glass or hololens.
But I get what you mean, the learning curve is much higher than in smartphone technology in certain aspects. But smartphones themselves were inherently difficult to build too. Not so much the hardware but more the software. They required a whole new operating system build from scratch. If it weren't for google or apple having the manpower, we could still be using clamshell phones even today.
tomistruth t1_j4v60oz wrote
Reply to comment by DarthBuzzard in Apple Delays AR Glasses, Plans Cheaper Mixed-Reality Headset by GadnukBreakerOfWrlds
People got used to the annual product cycle that they forgot that it takes decades for new hardware products to enter the market and technology to be cheap enough to gain enough traction among the masses. I don't work with hardware AR or VR but I am sure the problems are not that complex that you make it out to be. I think the limited processing power is what is limiting it. Display technology has matured enough due to smartphones that they should not be the problem. Making the cpu small and powerful enough should be no problem with 3nm technology that we are getting next year. So I expect large gains in 2024.
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Reply to comment by MrMeseeks_ in Apple unveils MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, with more game-changing performance and the longest battery life ever in a Mac by TbonerT
Yeah, I checked prices. It was more expensive than I imagined lol. But the entry level model is really nice! I only dread the low storage and ram.
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Reply to comment by basicallyasking47 in Thousands of women join club to combat loneliness - BBC News by idreamofjiro
It's called Reddit.